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Yesterday we had our 350th Caromble! Friday. Wow! Luckily it’s not just a special day because of this number, but also because we have completed the creation of the skill level: Race!. A level where the goal is to reach the portal as fast as possible, whilst manoeuvring your ball around and over obstacles as it were a platform game. Lose your ball and you can say bye bye to your highscore.

Race has been an idea of Peter for a very long time. He believed it would be the coolest skill level you can imagine. We were skeptical. It took incredibly long before he started developing it and even in development it just seemed like, meh…

Yesterday Raymond and I (Pascal) have wrapped up the final things in the skill level and when I realized that I was screaming and bouncing on my chair whilst trying to get a highscore.. or no… just to try and reach the end of the level, we realized that Peter’s dream has become reality.

Race is my favourite skill level for the moment and I’m quite proud of my highscore of 1:17. Here is a video of one of my runs where I reached the end. The part with the charge ball in the end gave me a stress level I hadn’t experienced ever before.

Hi fans, friends and random people who stumble upon this website accidentally,

This week we have finally released Chapter 2 onto Steam. Chapter 2 introduces Caromble!‘s first Arkatron with the special power: Focus! We are very proud of this milestone and hope you like the 4 new story levels and 2 skill levels as much as we do. We sent around a press release to announce this milestone and you can find that one below. We are currently working hard on finshing Chapter 3 and hope to release it soon! Let’s get ready to Caromble!

Caromble!

The Brick Breaker over 6 years in development

♫ This is Caromble!: A fresh new take on the brick break game!♫

This is Caromble!

This is not just another brick breaker game. This is Caromble!: a fresh new take on the brick break game. Fight evil with physics-based destruction, puzzles, explosions, unlockable skill-levels, power-ups, mayhem, boss fights, more explosions, further puzzles, speedruns, superscore medals and much more… Visit us on Steam

Our story: One day. Every week. For over 6 years.

Our story is: high productivity, slow progress and being very persisting. Why we still work on it? Because we love it! We love to transform this retro genre into something exciting and new, hopefully you will love it too!

We are Crimson Owl Studios, a team of 5 one-day-a-week indie game developers – with regular jobs as software developers and a professional artist – working every Friday for over 6 years on Caromble!.

The Road to Gold

Last year we brought our development version of Caromble! to Steam Early Access. Chapter 2 is our first major update. The full release will contain six chapters; which will be released somewhere in 2016. However, our planning skills are not top-notch… If you want to know more about the reasoning for this Early Access adventure, please check out this absurd team video!

We hope to get as much feedback as possible in Early Access to create the brick breaker you’ve always dreamed of! Visit us on Steam